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Oh, That’s Easy

January 18, 2012
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Metro Detroit Portfolio Photographers Mary DuPrie Oh, that’s easy… I mentioned to my friend Eric that I liked how retouching sites had rollover images showing their before and after retouching samples.  I actually taught myself how to retouch by analyzing various rollovers.  I would mouse over them again and again, especially paying attention to the [...]

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Catalog Modeling In Detroit…

January 13, 2012
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Detroit Michigan Modeling Portfolio Photographers Mary DuPrie THERE BASICALLY ISN’T ANY… in a nutshell.  Models are not being flown out of Detroit to do many shoots.  Lucrative shoots will be booked out of  New York, LA, Chicago or Miami.  So unless you are signed with an agency in one of these cities those jobs will [...]

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First Shoot, First Look

January 6, 2012
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  Detroit Michigan Comp Card Photographers Mary DuPrie I normally have an order when I shoot comp cards for the day.  Today I wanted to shoot on the east side of the building but unfortunately the sun had already gone around to the south side and there were no cool floor patterns to be had. [...]

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Free Detroit Area Modeling Agencies List 2011

September 27, 2011
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Detroit Michigan Comp Card Photographers Mary DuPrie I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with the list information I’ve been gathering on local Detroit area modeling agencies.   Perhaps just keep it for clients who booked me for a shoot. I decided to go hog wild and list all the info I [...]

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Modeling Schools Are Not Agencies

September 16, 2011
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Detroit Michigan Comp Card Photographers Mary DuPrie I had a call tonight from a potential client and she mentioned an agency I hadn’t really heard of, Mannequin Modeling.   Hummm… who are they really?   While she was on the phone I Googled them.  The only difference between her and I is how I Google.  I [...]

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Make Your Own Sunny Day

January 17, 2011
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Detroit Michigan Modeling Portfolio Photography by Mary DuPrie I found a great little video about Camera Raw yesterday.  Definitely worth a look.  I’ve never bothered playing around in there before, I have to say I was blown away.  The brush tool is out of this world and I’ll have to find a use for the [...]

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Learning Curve

January 6, 2011

Kellys Comp Card Shoot from mary duprie on Vimeo. Detroit Michigan People Photographer Mary DuPrie So I’ve been thinking about how I would approach or even “if” I would ask paying clients about video taping them.  I thought why not dive in today and pitch my idea.  So here goes. At the end of the [...]

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Comp Card Video

December 7, 2010

Detroit Michigan Modeling Portfolio Photography by Mary DuPrie A bit of a storm last night so no internet.  I’m kinda secretly glad when the net goes down late at night.   A day off. So I made this video to go along with my comp card pricing.  It’s laid out to match my literature.  Head shots [...]

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